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In Children, Parenting on
May 16, 2017

The Day We Found Out Our Daughter had a Congenital Heart Defect

Our beautiful, Raegan Rose, was born on February 25, 2015 at 6:23 am. She weighed a whopping 9 lbs 7 oz! She was so beautiful and perfect! While Raegan snuggled in and nursed the first 45 minutes after being born, the nurses did all the tests they needed to. They briefly mentioned that her oxygen levels weren’t matching up and that they would try again later. We thought nothing of it, they made it sound like no big deal. However, they were unable to match them up and our pediatrician requested that we take her to a cardiologist just to make sure everything was ok. We still worried very little about it. But we were extremely anxious to get out of the hospital, and we were discharged the next evening at 7:00pm. So Raegan was only 36.5 hours old. But we simply could not wait to get her home.

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